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Here are some links to websites with more advice on how to encourage young children to explore and talk about their feelings, and a downloadable sheet with practical tips from the book's consultant on helping children manage their emotions.
Practical tips to download
Adobe PDF
Managing emotions
Find advice about how to help children manage their emotions from Holly Docherty, the consultant for this book.
Websites to visit
Video clips to share with children
Websites to visit
Talking about feelings
Find short videos to help introduce the idea of talking about feelings. (Click on the playlist for more clips.)
Why do we get angry?
Jessi and Squeaks talk about feeling angry and how to control it when getting in angry isn't the right choice.
Help children manage feelings
Advice and strategies about how to help children manage different feelings.
Games and activities
Find games and activities about worrying, fear and other feelings. (Click on links in the "Games & Activities" box. NB Videos are restricted to the US and its territories.)
Activities for children
Websites to visit
Guessing game
Try a guessing game about feelings. (Click on "Guessing Feelings" then match faces with feelings. The answers include questions to help you talk about feelings with your child.)
Draw your feelings
An online activity with simple painting, drawing and stamp tools.
How to keep calm
Find out how breathing and counting to ten can help you stay calm.
Breathing exercise
See how breathing can help you relax.
More advice for grown-ups
Websites to visit
Feelings and emotions
Printable guides to teaching children about feelings and emotions.
Age-by-age advice
Tips and activities about emotions, self-awareness and social skills. (Choose a topic then choose your child's age.)
Developing emotional skills
Advice on helping small children develop emotional skills.
Learning to forgive
Watch a video about how to help kids learn to forgive others.
Developmental milestones
Social and emotional developmental milestones: 2 months to 5 years. (Click on an age for photos and videos.)
Emotional skills
Printable resources on feelings and emotional skills. (Scroll down and click on "Backpack Connection", "Family Articles" or "Teaching Social Emotional Skills".)
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About this book
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All about feelings
How are you feeling today? This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction to feelings is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name how they’re feeling and learn to talk about and manage their emotions in helpful ways.
“The perfect introduction to helping little ones understand and handle their often confusing and jumbled-up emotions.”
Lancashire Evening Post
Felicity Brooks
Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s. She has written and edited hundreds of children’s titles, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts. Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.
Press Reviews
The perfect introduction to helping little ones understand and handle their often confusing and jumbled-up emotions, and with useful notes for grown-ups at the back and links to websites for more advice, everyone at home, nursery or school is guaranteed to feel better when the last page has turned!
Lancashire Evening Post
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